Sunday, 21 February 2016

“Those who
reject even telepathy have reached the point where they are impugning
either the honesty or the sanity of several thousand
scientific researchers on all major continents over a period of decades.
Such expedient ways of disposing of data are shared only by the most
ardent anti-Evolutionists among the Fundamentalist sects.”

The term
“telepathy” was coined in 1882 by Frederick W.H. Myers, a founding member of the London Society for
Psychical Research (SPR). The word means “feeling at a distance,” though this
may be slightly misleading in that this is not usually how the term is
deployed. Telepathy is essentially mind-to-mind contact, or the exchange of information
between two different consciousnesses separated by an arbitrarily large
distance (it doesn’t matter how large). Though many of the more narrow-visioned
would claim any discussion involving telepathy is “unscientific” by default, we
can see that many years ago there were eminent scientists who not only
recognized its existence but sought to understand the phenomenon.

The first
studies of telepathy were based on collections of spontaneous experiences, with
1886 seeing the publication of the seminal classic Phantasms of the Living, by the
British scholars Edmund Gurney, Frederick Myers, and Frank Podmore—who actually
took the time and effort to analyse all reports to identify the best and most
reliable cases for publication and eliminate the fraudulent.

Over a
decade later, the eminent chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes—also an avid and meticulous researcher
into “paranormal” phenomena—spoke on telepathy before the Royal Society at
Bristol, England, in 1898. This address was, in the words of occultist Swami Panchadasi (a.k.a. William Walker Atkinson), “made
before an assemblage of distinguished scientists, many of them rank materialists
and quite skeptical of all occult phenomena.” Crookes, facing this gathering as
its president, expressed the view that it is a “fundamental law…that thoughts
and images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of
the recognized organs of sense—that knowledge may enter the human mind without
being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways.”

If telepathy
occurs, he continued, “we have two physical facts—the physical change in the
brain of A, the suggestor, and the analogous physical change in the brain of B,
the recipient of the suggestion.” While Crookes would eventually be vindicated
in these comments by the development of the EEG and other modern technology and
experimental designs (as I detail in THE GRAND ILLUSION, VOL. 1), he assumed
that “[b]etween these two physical events there must exist a train of physical
causes,” which we can accept if we modify our definition of “physical” to
include subtle energies (such as torsion/scalar
fields), as well as the plasma-like particulate matter of the various
aetheric densities (etheric, astral, mental, etc.).

In the
modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with
telephone calls, according to biologist and paranormal researcher Rupert Sheldrake.
Over 80% of people claim to have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who
then phoned them; or that they have known, in a telepathic sort of way, who was
on the phone before answering it. Sheldrake reports that controlled experiments
have provided highly statistically significant repeatable positive results.
Many people (probably about 80%!), however, will need no convincing of the
fact, as repeated personal experience has a way of making experimental proofs a
little bit redundant sometimes.

Sir Hubert Wilkins

A
World-First Experiment in Telepathy

In 1942 the
remarkable though little-known book Thoughts Through Space, by Australian-born
aviator-explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins (1888–1958) and American author,
playwright, and “sensitive” Harold Sherman (1898–1987), was published. It
detailed the first experiment (conducted from late 1937 through to early 1938)
of its kind: a long-distance and long-term telepathy experiment where Wilkins,
who was aiding in the aerial search for a missing Russian craft and its crew in
the Arctic, would attempt to telepathically send information regarding his
activities to Sherman, who would attempt to receive the messages and record
them. This would take place over a period of some five months.

However, as
it turned out, Wilkins never got the opportunity to take time to deliberately
send any impressions to Sherman, who faithfully conducted his “psychic vigil”
each night at the same time, ever unaware of Wilkins’ situation or activities.
What Wilkins did instead was to record events and details in his log, this
being the usual habit with an explorer. When Wilkins returned from the Arctic,
his dated log was compared with the dated impressions of Sherman so the
latter’s psychic accuracy and reliability could be assessed.

Early in the
book, Wilkins made a point of noting that, a) Sherman had already demonstrated
his ability to receive impressions without the necessity of Wilkins’
consciously willing thoughts to him at the time of their scheduled “sittings,”
and, b) Sherman could respond directly to Wilkins’ thoughts on the occasions he
was able to keep their “psi appointments.”

The role of
emotion was significant in these experiments (as it is in many psi
experiments), as the two participants ultimately acknowledged. Wilkins noted
that despite his inability to regularly keep to the appointed “sending” time
for the experiments, he did continue his habit of thinking the unusual
incidents strongly to Sherman. When Wilkins was anxious, Sherman seemed to be
particularly effective at detecting his thoughts.

Wilkins also
agreed with the occultist’s axiom that the intensity of a sender’s emotional
reaction to what is happening to him, or has happened, determines the degree of
intensity of the “thought-waves” discharged. (In my book The Grand Illusion: A
Synthesis of Science and Spirituality Vol.1, I have portrayed these thought
waves as torsion/scalar
waves in the vacuum/aether/zero point field/time-space/implicate order.)

Also worth
noting is that in some ways, this epic experiment—lasting as it did over five
months—was something of a precursor to what would later become known as remote
viewing. It also featured elements of prevision, evincing a predictable
unpredictability so common to psi functioning, thus blurring the lines between
telepathy in real time and other forms of clairvoyance—much as this tended to
occasion Sherman’s uncertainty as to precisely what he was seeing at the
precise moment of seeing. Sometimes visions would turn into previsions,
precipitating out of the aether days later without apparent warning. This was a
complicating factor at times, as was the initial lack of feedback for Sherman,
which caused him a degree of anxiety (was he “hitting” more than missing?).
Nevertheless, the experiment overall can only be described as a stunning
success, with some indisputably spectacular hits by Sherman to be found
scattered throughout.

Harold M. Sherman

Official
Results

Sherman sat
three times a week to act as receiver, depositing copies of his nightly
impressions to third party witnesses to ensure there could be no question of
his having failed to record his impressions before receiving Wilkins’ log.
Let’s look at some of the data. Sherman’s report of Wilkins’ activities for
February 14 reads:

Impression
you talked three times before different interested groups since arrival at
Edmonton—first time before some luncheon club—like Rotary Club—you have found a
motor—you plan to take off with it tomorrow or Wednesday, if weather permits.
You have dinner with three men and their wives…One of Edmonton’s wealthiest and
most prominent men has entertained you and given you some assistance relative
to the expedition—word McKenzie flashes to my mind—is there a company of that
name supplying you with plane? Seem to see you as guest of Church Brotherhood…Sunday
occasion—you called on to speak—you have appointment with two men who will take
you to some plant or place where you will see the packing of the equipment.

Keep in mind
that Sherman had been receiving little feedback on previous recordings prior to
this session, and had not been forewarned of any of these activities, making it
all the more remarkable that Wilkins was able to subsequently confirm every
detail, including the fact that McKenzie Airways were furnishing the plane that
would fly the new engine back to Aklavik. All of these things took place
between February 10 and 14.

As noted,
sometimes the information being received by Sherman was a blur of present (or
recent past) information and information pertaining to some point in the future.
Wilkins stated that in his March 1 record Sherman had recorded almost all of
his most prominent thoughts as well as describing the conditions Wilkins
experienced. The latter part of the entry from Sherman mentions liquor in
connection with a commercial interest (possibly a company seeking his
endorsement). Sherman states that Wilkins is wondering whether they will offer
him enough money for it, and then moves on to things flight-related. He
suggests checking the oil and gas lines leading to the engine as a possible
source of trouble—“something appears to get clogged or choked” as a result of
the low ambient temperature.

Wilkins’
analysis of Sherman’s psi report confirms that Hiram Walker had indeed sought
Wilkins’ endorsement for a certain whiskey, but did not offer sufficient
remuneration to garner Wilkins’ advocacy. It was the one time that year that
Wilkins had received such an offer. As for Sherman’s concern over gas and oil
lines, sure enough, the next day during flight, the feed on the automatic control
did clog. Towards evening, the oil temperature indicated some clogging of the
line, according to one of Wilkins’ collaborators (Cheeseman) on the plane with
him.

Evidently,
darkness proved to be an aid in Sherman’s sittings, eliminating visual stimuli
so he could become more receptive to the nonlocal stimuli filtering through
from his subconscious mind. Sitting in darkness to receive psi information is a
good and standard way to increase the psi signal to noise ratio (not
dissimilarly to Ganzfeld tests).

An
interesting fact to note is that after some time of sitting three times a week
for his sessions, Sherman had trained his subconscious to feed him psi
information more consistently. He commented that his mind had become so highly
sensitized and habituated to the psi task that it continually brought him
un-asked-for impressions and “unusual mental flashes.” These flashes appeared
sometimes to come from the mind of anyone he focused his attention on,
regardless of the fact that there were unbidden insights he did not seek. There
are many pieces of evidence that demonstrate that the psi faculty, like our
muscular system, is responsive to training. This has been known to mystics and
occultists for many centuries.

As well as
this, Sherman suffered serious ill health effects because of his other
commitments, which left him virtually no rest and recovery time. We need not go
into Sherman’s exact method in eliciting his results, but it is worth noting
that during the sessions he could feel his mind “contact” Wilkins’ mind, he
sensed a force, line, or stream of energy which seemed to connect the two
subconscious minds of the men. During the sittings when he felt this sensation
the strongest, he got his best results.

A conclusion
reached by both men (and one in full accordance with occult thought) was that
the degree of intensity of emotional reaction to external experience determines
the intensity of the thought force projected. In their view, human emotions
were the power source behind the electrical currents of the brain. A recurring
motif in “paranormal” and parapsychological research is the important role of
emotion, creative force that it is.

Sherman also
noted that he sensed thought impressions at two places in his body: the brain
(center of crown and third eye chakras) and solar plexus (where the manipura
chakra is). He would get a nerve reaction in the pit of his stomach (not unlike
that felt when one receives a sudden shock or becomes anxious), which he came
to realize always accompanied a genuine telepathic communication. Elsewhere, in
his psi research, Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama has connected the lower three chakras
(one of which is the solar plexus chakra/manipura) with passive or receptive
psi abilities, such as Sherman employed in this telepathy experiment.

On top of
Sherman’s amazingly accurate reports of Wilkins’ far removed activities either
as they happened or soon after, he also sensed events yet to happen to Wilkins,
as previously noted. Wilkins only had two accidents occur involving his plane
during his five months away, and Sherman sensed both ahead of time, witnessing
previsions of these events days before they happened.

To give
further insight into the remarkably successful nature of this experiment,
several friends and/or collaborators of Sherman and Wilkins signed affidavits
testifying to the validity of the experimental procedure as well as Sherman’s
undeniable accuracy. Dr. Henry S.W. Hardwicke, a research officer for the
Psychic Research Society of New York, stated in his affidavit that the
authenticity of the telepathic phenomena was unquestionable. Dr. A.E.
Strath-Gordon was effusive in his own affidavit, stating that Sherman’s amazing
telepathic consistency, clarity, and accuracy was something he had not seen in
all his years of research around the world. Such was Sherman’s telepathic
acuity that, to Strath-Gordon, it seemed almost as if he was taking dictation
from some unseen intelligence.

This is not
to construe that Sherman only ever “hit” and never “missed.” He did, as any
intuitive will, miss occasionally, but more often than not he was accurate, far
too often and with such exquisite detail that it cannot logically be asserted
that he obtained his results by lucky guesses over this extended period, and no
evidence at all exists to implicate anyone in any fraudulent activities. But
for the most part, even Sherman’s misses were intriguingly close to the mark,
seemingly mixing fact with fiction.

Little more
need be said to convince the sane of the success of this epic psi experiment.
However, Sherman’s talents provide much food for thought. For instance, it is
notorious among psychics that sensing specific numbers, dates, names, and such
particulars represents one of the most difficult tasks. Sherman was exceptional
at sensing names of people, companies, and more, as well as having some
spectacular hits with numerical data (remembering that he was operating totally
“blind” to Wilkins’ Arctic activities).

On November
30, one of his data points was simply this: Latitude 68, Longitude 133. Wilkins
recorded: Latitude 68, Longitude 135. These numbers bear no further comment. In
his next sitting (December 2), Sherman recorded several spectacular hits,
including a note of the intended first flight of Wilkins which was to be a
distance of 600 miles. In his own notes, Wilkins had recorded that this flight
was indeed slated to be 600 miles. Note again that Wilkins did not offer
foreknowledge of his intended plans or movements in these letters.

To add yet
another complicating factor to all of this, Sherman found that it was difficult
to distinguish between a thought in the mind of an individual and the actual
materialization of that thought in action. He said he was certain that there
had been occasions where he had unwittingly confused these two thought-forms.

Testing a polygraph machine

In his many
experiments several decades later, former CIA polygraph expert Cleve Backster
found, interestingly, that his plants—leaves wired to a polygraph
machine—initially encountered something of a similar situation when it came to
detecting silent human intent to harm them, though they rapidly learned to
distinguish between real and imagined threats.

The process
for a human attempting telepathy seems to present more challenges—perhaps
because plants do not have much in the way of an individuated conscious mind to
block subconscious perceptions: they belong to a group consciousness or
“morphic field,” and lack a personal subconscious. The human, whether
particularly intelligent or not, has this discriminatory disadvantage built in.
So, while it may not be much of a compliment to be told you have the
intelligence of a house plant, it could, in a sense, be something of an
accolade to be told you have the intuition of one!

In January
1938, Sherman made some interesting notes regarding some technicalities of the
telepathic downloading process. At 11.30 on the designated nights of the
appointments, wherever he was he would begin to receive strong feelings from
Wilkins. He stated that unless he was somewhere he could clear his mind, he did
not try to interpret those feelings, since this invited interference from his
imagination before he was ready to complete the entire operation. So long as he
kept the impressions in his mental “dark room” until he was ready to bring them
out and process them, he was able to retain them.

Final
Thoughts

With two peoples’
brain-minds acting as a nonlocally correlated system, the connection is
maintained by nonlocal consciousness (in aether/time-space/implicate
order)—facilitated, Amit Goswami believes, by the brains’ “quantum nature.”
Such “paranormal” phenomena could be attributable to torsion waves passing
between the participants’ minds. The two parties have synchronized their
operations in time; now spatial distance is irrelevant—they act as one system
in time. It is interesting to note that torsion fields cannot be shielded by conventional means
(including Faraday cages), and evidence no attenuation when propagated
arbitrary distances. “As pointed out by A. Akimov, empirical exhibits of
torsion fields have possibly been found previously in conventional scientific
research, but not yet recognized as such.” One such example may be the
phenomenon of quantum nonlocality, “which can be attributed to superluminal
transmission of torsion potential.”

We should
note: any form of meaningful contact between people can establish a nonlocal
correlation, as any clairvoyant or occultist worth their salt can tell you—this
is how legitimate psychics (let us ignore the plethora of phonies) can carry
out “readings” over the phone or internet without ever having so much as been
in the same country as the sitter or client.

That telepathy exists
is doubtless—countless experiments and spontaneous real-world events confirm
its reality. However, a larger scientific paradigm within which to view this
and other “paranormal” phenomena has been missing for too long now.
Parapsychology has failed to provide one, and mainstream Western physics has
been too handicapped by its own prejudices and conceptual roadblocks to really
do this subject matter justice. In THE GRAND ILLUSION VOL. 1,
I provide the kind of far-reaching paradigm needed within which to place such
phenomena—something that the world seems to be increasingly ready for.

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1 comment:

Telepathy is a channel to our deeper selves. Once one realizes the connection there is no separate being, there is only a sequence of experiences vibrating in harmony with who we are. We are one after all, so it's only the acknowledgment of that fact that sends us off into the realm of universal communication where there are no boundaries, thoughts fly back and forth without judgments and hence telepathy is as natural as the air we breathe. Know this and you can pick up any frequency as we transmit and receive messages from the core of our existence to any probable reality at any given moment.

There are no limitations, but there are beliefs that hinder us from realizing our true potential to communicate anything we like.

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